Two or More Ransomware Variants Impacting the Same Victims and Data Destruction Trends

In Malware Ransomware, New Threats
September 29, 2023
Two or More Ransomware Variants Impacting the Same Victims and Data Destruction Trends
FBI PIN 20230927-001 TLP:CLEAR

Summary
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to
highlight emerging ransomware trends and encourage organizations to implement the
recommendations in the “Mitigations” section to reduce the likelihood and impact of
ransomware incidents.

Threat
As of July 2023, the FBI noted two trends emerging across the ransomware environment and is
releasing this notification for industry awareness. These new trends included multiple
ransomware attacks on the same victim in close date proximity and new data destruction
tactics in ransomware attacks

Read the full notification and suggested mitigations, below.